Iron Wolf

CAST OF CHARACTERS

STACY ANNE BARBEAU, president of the United States of America

TIMOTHY SPELLING, general, U.S. Air Force, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

THOMAS TORREY, CIA director

EDWARD RAUCH, president’s national security adviser

KAREN GRAYSON, secretary of state

LUKE COHEN, White House chief of staff

KEVIN CALDWELL, admiral, U.S. Navy, director of the National Security Agency

ROWLAND HALL, brigadier general, U.S. Marine Corps, top aide to General Spelling

HUNTER “BOOMER” NOBLE, Ph.D., chief of aerospace engineering, Sky Masters Aerospace Inc.

DEKE CARSON, Sky Masters student pilot, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

FRANK TALBOT, officer, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

COMMANDER RUSS GERHARDT, U.S. Navy, air operations officer, CVN-77 USS GEORGE H. W. BUSH

FIRST SERGEANT MIKE IKEDA, U.S. Army, 75th Ranger Regiment

CAPTAIN DANIEL ROJAS, U.S. Army, 75th Ranger Regiment

FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WEBER, U.S. Air Force, Special Operations Command

KEVIN MARTINDALE, president of Scion, former president of the United States of America

BRAD MCLANAHAN, commander of the Iron Wolf Squadron’s XF-111 SuperVark bomber unit

PATRICK MCLANAHAN, Cybernetic Infantry Device (CID) pilot, Iron Wolf Squadron ground operations unit, former lieutenant general, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

WAYNE “WHACK” MACOMBER, commander, Iron Wolf Squadron CID operations, former major, U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (ret.)

MARK DARROW, XF-111 pilot, Iron Wolf Squadron, former Tornado fighter-bomber pilot, Royal Air Force (ret.)

JACK HOLLENBECK, XF-111 weapons officer, Iron Wolf Squadron

BILL SIEVERT, XF-111 pilot, former F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

GEORGE “SMOOTH” HERRES, XF-111 weapons officer, former B-1B offensive systems operator, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

KAREN TANABE, XF-111 pilot, former B-52 pilot, U.S. Air Force (ret.)

IAN SCHOFIELD, commander, Iron Wolf deep-penetration unit, former captain in Canada’s Special Operations Regiment

SAMANTHA KERR, operative, Scion’s security and countersurveillance division

MARCUS CARTWRIGHT, operative, Scion’s logistics division

GENNADIY ANATOLIYVICH GRYZLOV, president of the Russian Federation

SERGEI TARZAROV, president’s chief of staff

GREGOR SOKOLOV, minister of defense

VIKTOR KAZYANOV, minister of state security

DARIA TITENEVA, foreign minister

IVAN ULANOV, president’s private secretary

GENERAL MIKHAIL KHRISTENKO, chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces

LIEUTENANT GENERAL MIKHAIL VORONOV, commander of Russia’s 20th Guards Army

COLONEL GENERAL VALENTIN MAKSIMOV, commander of the Russian Air Force

IGOR TRUZNYEV, former president of the Russian Federation and former head for the Federal Security Service (FSB)

MAJOR GENERAL KONSTANTIN ZARUBIN, commander, 9th Motor-Rifle Brigade

LIEUTENANT GENERAL MIKHAIL POLIVANOV, new commander of Russia’s 20th Guards Army

MAJOR VIKTOR ZELIN, Su-34 fighter-bomber pilot

CAPTAIN NIKOLAI STARIKOV, Su-34 fighter-bomber navigation and weapons officer

CAPTAIN KIRILL ARISTOV, commander, 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade Quick Reaction Force

SENIOR SERGEANT IVAN CHAPAYEV, scout, 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade

CAPTAIN LEONID DAVYDOV, Su-24M2 fighter-bomber pilot

CAPTAIN STEPAN NIKOLAYEV, Su-24M2 fighter-bomber pilot

LIEUTENANT YURI BELINSKY, Su-24M2 fighter-bomber weapons officer

CAPTAIN TIMUR PELEVIN, 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade

REAR ADMIRAL ANATOLY VARENNIKOV, task force commander, Russian aircraft carrier ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV

CAPTAIN LEONID YAKUNIN, chief intelligence officer, Russian aircraft carrier ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV

MAJOR VLADIMIR CHERKASHIN, Su-35 fighter pilot

CAPTAIN OLEG BESSONOV, Su-35 fighter pilot

COLONEL VITALYI SAMSONOV, senior air controller, Beriev-100 AWACS plane

COLONEL ALEXEI FILIPPOV, Su-35 fighter pilot and fighter strike force commander

MAJOR YEVGENY KUROCHKIN, MiG-29M fighter pilot

CAPTAIN IVAN TEPLOV, T-72 tank company commander

COLONEL KONRAD SARATOV, commander, 72nd Tactical Missile Brigade

LIEUTENANT KARARINA KIROV, deputy action officer, 72nd Tactical Missile Brigade

MAJOR GENERAL ALEXANDER KORNUKOV, commander, Western Military District

CAPTAIN PAVEL IGNATYEV, Su-30 pilot

SENIOR LIEUTENANT VIKTORIA GREF, Su-30 weapons officer

MAJOR FEDIR KRAVCHENKO, second-in-command of Kaniv Volunteer Battalion, later partisan leader

COLONEL ROMANIUK, commander of Kaniv Volunteer Battalion

SERGEANT PAVLO LYTVYN, senior noncom, Kaniv Volunteer Battalion, later second-in-command of Fedir Kravchenko’s partisan unit

HENNADIY VOVK, partisan fighter

DMYTRO MARCHUK, former colonel in Ukraine’s special police, the Berkut

PIOTR WILK, president of Poland, former general in the Polish Air Force and commander of the First Air Defense Wing

KLAUDIA RYBAK, Polish prime minister

JANUSZ GIEREK, minister of national defense and deputy prime minister

ANDRZEJ WANIEK, foreign minister

IRENA MALINOWSKI, minister of the interior

CAPTAIN NADIA ROZEK, military aide to President Piotr Wilk, pilot in Polish Special Forces, 7th Special Operations Squadron

MAJOR GENERAL TADEUSZ STASIAK, Polish Land Forces

MAJOR GENERAL MILOSZ DOMANSKI, Polish Land Forces

COLONEL PAWEŁ KASPEREK, F-16 pilot and commander of the Polish Air Force’s 3rd Tactical Squadron

MAJOR DARIUSZ STEPNIAK, head of presidential security detail, Bureau of Government Protection (BOR)

SERGEANT KONRAD MALEK, Polish Border Guard

CAPTAIN MAREK KACZOR, MiG-29 fighter pilot

LIEUTENANT MILOSZ CZARNY, MiG-29 fighter pilot

STAFF SERGEANT TEODOR GóRSKI, support division, Polish armed forces

CAPTAIN KAZIMIERZ JANIK, liaison officer, Iron Wolf Squadron, Polish Special Forces, Jednostka Wojskowa Grom counterterrorism unit

LUKAS TENYS, prime minister of Lithuania

SVEN KALDA, prime minister of Estonia

KUNNAR DUKURS, prime minister of Latvia

CAPTAIN STEFAN COVACI, Romanian Military Police, co-commander of OSCE Starovoitove Arms Control Station

CAPTAIN VITALYI YUREVICH, Belarussian Border Guards, co-commander of OSCE Starovoitove Arms Control Station

QIN HENG, regional managing director for the Kiev branch, Shenzen Merchants Bank, and senior intelligence agent for the ministry of state security